Huangdi Neijing The four seasons of nourishing life correctly is to nourish yang in spring and summer, and nourish yin in fall and winter. The four seasons of nature are characterized by spring birth, summer growth, autumn harvest and winter storage. According to the theory of Chinese medicine, the basic law of the four seasons is "spring and summer Yang, fall and winter Yin". Therefore, the four seasons diet should also follow this principle.

Spring dietary principles: is to reduce the acid should be sweet, the choice of warm and pungent products. Diet should be light and tasty, avoid sour and greasy cold things, appropriate intake of yellow and green vegetables.

Summer diet more acidic, pungent products, less cold, section cold drinks. Choose light and refreshing, less greasy and easy to digest food. "Summer tonic" to warm the yang and adjust the yin.

Autumn dietary principles: is less pungent and more acidic, prevent dryness and protect the yin. For example, eat less onions, ginger, garlic, leeks, peppers and other pungent products, a little more acidic fruits and vegetables. Appropriate more sesame seeds, walnuts, honey, glutinous rice, dairy products.

Winter dietary principles: is to reduce the salt and increase the bitter, keep the yin submerged yang. Appropriate intake of turtles, turtles, lotus root, caraway, fungus, etc.. Winter tonic to nourish the yin and protect the yang.

Summer health common food

1, mung beans

Mung beans, also known as green peas, for the leguminous herbaceous plants vegetable beans genus mung beans of mature seeds, in all parts of China are planted. Because of its nutritious, can be made of mung bean porridge, mung bean rice, or cake, or sprouted for vegetables, is the traditional bean food of our people, so there is "food in the good, the food of the world of food grain" of the name. In the hot summer, mung bean soup is the people's favorite summer drink.

2, red beans

Red beans flat, sweet and sour taste, because red beans are good downstream, through the waterway, the ancients have "eat more people thin" said. Red beans have a heat detoxification, spleen and stomach, diuretic swelling, ventilation in addition to annoyance, blood and milk and other effects, in the treatment of enteritis, dysentery, diarrhea, as well as carbuncles and boils have a good effect.

3, millet

Millet, also known as corn, millet is hot, yellow, most complementary to the spleen and stomach, good morning consumption. At the same time, rice is cool, especially suitable for consumption in the evening, you can eat more. And the noodles are hot, the most complementary heart gas, winter planting and summer harvest, summer consumption is the best. Many women in the north of China after giving birth, there is a tradition of millet with brown sugar to nourish the body. Millet porridge is rich in nutrients, there is a "ginseng soup" of the name.